Making of The Dam Busters
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I wonder how many actuals adopted brown shoes during the shooting
Indeed, he played his Boss I believe.
Richard Todd had a distinguished war career in which he was part of the parachute drop to support the taking of Pegasus bridge.
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During the filming the Lancs actually are filmed flying at 30ft, because when they watched the first takes shot at 60ft it looked a lot higher, so they reshot some at 30ft that looked on film like 60ft
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MPN 11. Minute 19:45. Four airframes, pilots and their sqns named. Thanks for that. I was lucky enough to meet Joe Kmiecik, when I was doing a refresher at Oakington in '73. "Just say "come here chick" quickly" Fascinating man to listen to, and I can well believe him flying at 30'. One of his party-pieces when he was flying Lancasters was a fast fly-by, pull to the vertical, cut two engines on one side, stall-turn into the dead engines and land off it.
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When doing presentations on CHASTISE, I always sub-title the dams as: Moehne - the famous one, Sorpe - the pretty one and the Eder - the "how the hell did they do that?" one.
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Having done a Staff Ride to the dams some years ago I too was very impressed with the run-in to the Eder. Looking down from the castle (the IP) to the headland which marked the turning point to aim at the dam it all seemed very tight.
Back home I decided to have a ‘go’ in the sim, flying a 4 engined ac (C130) but with the benefit of auto throttle (to simulate the ENG) & radalt (the Nav). Even doing it by day I wasn’t able to get lined up properly and stable at 50ft, everything happened just too quickly.
Back home I decided to have a ‘go’ in the sim, flying a 4 engined ac (C130) but with the benefit of auto throttle (to simulate the ENG) & radalt (the Nav). Even doing it by day I wasn’t able to get lined up properly and stable at 50ft, everything happened just too quickly.